Next Book Group meeting will be March 11th, 2025, at 4 pm in the library.
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Reading Selection for discussion
at the Febraury Meeting: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel 
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe opposes him. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?
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Reading List:
April Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick *Libby, Audio CD May The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas *Libby, Audio CD June Welcome to the World Baby Girl by Fannie Flagg *Audio Cassette July The House of the Spirits by Isabelle Allende *Audio CD August Braiding Sweetgrass, Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer *Libby, Audio CD * Titles with audio versions and where to find them. If you would like an Audio CD version, please ask to order it ahead of time. Past Selections: Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson The Sentence by Louise Erdrich Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates Bel Canto by Ann Patchett Walking with the Great Apes Sy Montgomery All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss by Margaret Renkl The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage Major Petttigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel |